PkgTemplates

PkgTemplates is a Julia package for creating new Julia packages in an easy, repeatable, and customizable way.

Installation

pkg> add PkgTemplates

Plugins

PkgTemplates is based on plugins which handle the setup of individual package components. The available plugins are:

• Continuous Integration (CI)
  • Travis CI (Linux, MacOS)
  • AppVeyor (Windows)
  • GitLabCI (Linux)
  • CirrusCI (FreeBSD)
• Code Coverage
  • Codecov
  • Coveralls
• Documentation
  • GitHubPages
• Citation

Usage

Assuming you have the relatively standard Git options user.name, user.email and github.user set up globally with git config --global, the simplest template requires no arguments:

julia> using PkgTemplates
ERROR: ArgumentError: Package PkgTemplates not found in current path:
- Run `import Pkg; Pkg.add("PkgTemplates")` to install the PkgTemplates package.

julia> t = Template()
ERROR: UndefVarError: Template not defined

julia> generate("MyPkg", t)
ERROR: UndefVarError: generate not defined

julia> run(`git -C $(joinpath(t.dir, "MyPkg")) ls-files`);
ERROR: UndefVarError: t not defined

However, we can also configure a number of keyword arguments to Template:

julia> using PkgTemplates
ERROR: ArgumentError: Package PkgTemplates not found in current path:
- Run `import Pkg; Pkg.add("PkgTemplates")` to install the PkgTemplates package.

julia> t = Template(;
           user="myusername",
           license="MIT",
           authors=["Chris de Graaf", "Invenia Technical Computing Corporation"],
           dir="~/code",
           julia_version=v"0.7",
           ssh=true,
           plugins=[
               TravisCI(),
               Codecov(),
               Coveralls(),
               AppVeyor(),
               GitHubPages(),
               CirrusCI(),
           ],
       )
ERROR: UndefVarError: TravisCI not defined

julia> generate("MyPkg2", t)
ERROR: UndefVarError: generate not defined

julia> run(`git -C $(joinpath(t.dir, "MyPkg2")) ls-files`);
ERROR: UndefVarError: t not defined

If that looks like a lot of work, you can also create templates interactively with interactive_template:

And if that's still too much work for you, you can call interactive_template with fast=true to use default values for everything but username and plugin selection.

You can also use generate_interactive to interactively generate a template and then immediately use it to create a new package.

Comparison to PkgDev

PkgTemplates is similar in functionality to PkgDev's generate function. However, PkgTemplates offers more customizability in templates and more extensibility via plugins. For the package registration and release management features that PkgTemplates doesn't include, you are encouraged to use AttoBot instead.

Contributing

It's extremely easy to extend PkgTemplates with new plugins. To get started, check out the plugin development guide.